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Thursday, December 3, 2009
0160; It's less than a year into his term and yet business and Main Street are writing him off on not delivering economically what they assumed he had promised. It's called magical thinking: The belief, despite the facts and trend lines, that what we want to happen will happen. 0160; It probably will be exactly that which does in Barack Obama.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
And you can make it easy for your audience to retweet the main points of your presentation (make sure your tweet is easily retweetable by allowing space for “RT @yourusername” within the 140 characters).
In my post 10 tools for presenting with Twitter , I lamented that there was no easy-to-use way of posting tweets from within PowerPoint. Timo Elliott of SAPWeb2.0
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Taylor uses some slides and one prop (an actual human brain), but mainly she lets her emotions out and tells her story in an honest, sincere way. TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to speak at TED are given 18-minute slots maximum (some are for even less time such as 3- and 6-minute slots).
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Below I summarize some of his main points at a glance. (1) Getting Started • Choose a topic for which you have great passion. Recently Felix Jung gave an interesting talk at Pecha Kucha Chicago, Volume 9. Felix told me that he became so interested in the process of developing his 6-minute and 40-second presentation that he created his own guide of sorts to help others.
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Friday, June 12, 2009
Slides containing mainly text.
It’s probably the main reason most presentations go on too long. Now out of the material that you have left, identify the main points that support the key message. There are four main types of evidence:
In a perfect world, every new presentation would be prepared from scratch, tailored exactly to the specific audience. But in reality, you sometimes have to cobble together a “new presentation” from pre-existing material.
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Act I sets up your story with key elements to identify the setting, main character and conflict. The easiest one: main character. 8221; You determine what the main character wants to be once its problem is solved before you figure out what the audience can do about it. The BBP story template helps you organize and outline your thoughts for a presentation before working with PowerPoint.
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
There's got to be a reason to get out of bed every day. Eat Wisely (4) Drink a little (wine) everyday. (5) Eat mainly plant-based foods. Happy New Year, everyone. I hope 2010 is a healthy and meaningful one for you all. The
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Here’s an example of how I use this technique:
“Here’s the main thing that I want you to get. Let the slide speak for itself.
“Here’s the main thing I want you to get:” [click - silence]
There’s a revolution in the design of PowerPoint slides, but not the delivery.
Most speakers still rely on their slides to cue them.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
There are two main types:
At last, we have some scientifically rigorous evidence to show that slides full of bullet-points don’t work.
The research is the work of Chris Atherton , a cognitive psychologist. Chris recently delivered a presentation at the Technical Communication UK Conference and has put up her slides on slideshare .
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Monday, June 8, 2009
And while the main points are simply tips or advice, the second lines make claims that really need the sources cited. The other day I was watching this interview with Eric Schlosser on The Colbert Report. Schlosser is the author of Fast Food Nation and was on Colbert to promote a new documentary called Food, Inc. which opened last week.
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